Sebastian Buff

Portrait of an elegant lady, 1869.

Sebastian Buff (c.1829–1880) was a Swiss portrait painter.

Life

A watch bearer's pause, 1867.

Buff was born in 1829.[1] He studied painting with the portraitist Leonhard Tanner in St Gallen,[1] before continuing his education at Munich and Paris. Besides portraits he painted genre works which were much sought after. He died at Herisau in 1880.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Buff, Sebastian". Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "BUFF, Sebastian" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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